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What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:08 am
by Mistrel
I've always been curious. Is there anyone here who knows?
Most users ever online was 265 on Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:47 am
Was the forum slashdotted or something?
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:08 am
by PB
Version 3.94 was released on 16th August 2005:
http://www.purebasic.com/news45.php
Added: Brand a new IDE and 3 Debuggers (!)
Then the massive 4.00 upgrade happened on 8th May 2006:
http://www.purebasic.com/news48.php
Added: Native unicode support
Added: Subsystems support
Added: Unlimited length strings in both ascii and unicode mode
Added: Thread safe commandset and strings
So, it was quite an exciting time!
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:45 am
by c4s
I think it could have been a forum bug?!
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:33 am
by PB
Possibly, but I was there at the time and I definitely remember seeing
LOTS of names in the "Who is online" list. Whether they were all real
users, or a bug, is a question maybe only Fred can answer.
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:59 pm
by Lost
Sometimes search engine spiders tend to go berzerk. Happened on my forum a few times and each time it set a new online record.
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:50 pm
by Joakim Christiansen
Mistrel wrote:Most users ever online was 265 on Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:47 am
From my experience most likely bots registering. (but I could be wrong)
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:59 pm
by freak
Those spikes are from search engine bots being misinterpreted as multiple visitors. phpbb2 did not distinguish bots from real visitors.
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:57 pm
by Num3
It was me!
I created all those accounts, just in case i ever got banned from posting HasselSpam ...
Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:04 pm
by Joakim Christiansen
Num3 wrote:I created all those accounts, just in case i ever got banned from posting HasselSpam ...
Actually believable!